It may be election eve but as usual in Belize, life goes on… and so does death. Five maximum-security prisoners attempted to escape from the Hattieville Prison Tuesday evening, and one did not live to tell the tale. According to prison officials at around five o’clock the men, all of whom were residents of cell […]
In the south of the country hundreds of volunteers and security personnel are combing the area around Red Bank Village in search of a British woman missing since Monday. Twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot is a volunteer with the British based charitable organization Raleigh International, who was working on the construction of a new school. […]
Last week at his press conference Attorney General Dean Barrow announced some late term judicial appointments… and today so said, so done. In a ceremony in Belmopan Justice Manuel Sosa was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Governor General Sir Colville Young. Sosa succeeds former Chief Justice George Singh who was […]
Earlier this week we reported on the death of Escandar Bedran of Cayo. Yesterday Bedran was laid to rest and the Catholic Bishop of Belize used the occasion of his funeral to reflect on recent political developments and their implications for Belize’s future. He spoke to News Five this afternoon in Belize City. O.P. Martin, […]
Not everyone today was caught up in the last minute rush of electoral politics. Arreini Palacio found some relief… in the judicial system. “Women expressing themselves through art,” is the theme under which BOWAND is holding the Women in Art exhibition. The display, which runs from August twenty-six through to September third, was opened in […]
Barring some unlikely but interesting political possibilities, come Friday morning the Prime Minister of Belize will be named either Manuel Esquivel or Said Musa. News Five’s Patrick Jones takes a quick look at the two men who are asking us for our support. The next Prime Minister of Belize will be one of these gentlemen. […]
Some candidates have been preparing for tomorrow’s election for over five years… while others have had less than five months. But however long they have been preparing, the eighty-two candidates running for the House of Representatives were all busy today trying to win over that one last voter. I caught up with a few of […]
